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Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country. — Cindy Sheehan

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot — Ron Paul

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot. — Nikki Haley

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. — Bill Vaughan

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.' — Andrew Luck

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. — Bill Owens

The land is always there...it is you who has to return — Munia Khan

I wouldn't be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country. — Sol Luckman

While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot. — Jules Renard

This Land Is Protected By Million's Blood Bath, If Needed, We'll Fight Again By Sipping The Death Bowl ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community. — Eric Liu

The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian. — Tit Elingtin

It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second. — Jerry Holkins

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. — Thomas Campbell

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime. — Frank Serpico

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world. — Charlotte Bronte

The denial of the popular will, Jefferson said privately, "opens upon us an abyss at which every sincere patriot must shudder."15 — Jon Meacham

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. — Alexander Pope

The house of every one is to him as his castle. — Edward Coke

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts. — Walter Cronkite

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act. — Jim Gerlach

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word. — Al Sharpton

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing. — Barton Gellman

I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots. — Tom Brady

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. — Stonewall Jackson

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper. — Maureen Dowd

I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home. — Rebecca McNutt

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that. — Mike Wallace

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors. — Ambrose Bierce

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government. — Sarah Vowell

Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping. — Andrew Rosenthal

For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries. — George Clooney

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed. — Samuel Johnson

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot. — Nelson Mandela

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. — Patrick Pearse

I'm a universal patriot ... my country is the world. — Charlotte Bronte

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. — Samuel Johnson

Why are the patriots the ones who don't want to spend money on trains? — Bill Maher

That's what any committed patriot would do: Fight to the last. Defeat your enemy at any cost; then hope you have enough left to rebuild. — Randolph D. Calverhall

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else. — Jay Roach

Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party. — Sumit Agarwal

I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism. — K. Hari Kumar

I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie. — Dov Davidoff

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor. — Mark Twain

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery. — Olusegun Obasanjo

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. — Mark Twain

The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security. — Mike Honda

You get changed by the Bill Belichick way, you get changed by the Patriot Way, — Aaron Hernandez

I did a film called 'Patriot Games' with Harrison Ford, and we actually shot three different versions of my death. And they settled on the third. — Sean Bean

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. — Karl Rove

A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need. — Auliq Ice

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively. — Lawrence Durrell

I'm a patriot of the heart. — Sylvester Stallone

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Thomas Paine

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers. — August Bebel

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment. — Peter Camejo

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born! — Candace Wheeler

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot — Carlos Marighella

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world ... We are not a nation, so much as a world. — Herman Melville

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act. — Carly Fiorina

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. — Aaron Swartz

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. — Voltaire

I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution. — J.S.B. Morse

The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower! — Anderson Luis De Abreu Oliveira

The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment. — Sidney Sheldon

The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree. — Srda Trifkovic

Delight,
top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. — Herman Melville

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act? — Ras Kass

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information. — John Ashcroft

We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots. — Marcus Luttrell

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. — Jesse Ventura

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? — Henry David Thoreau

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. — George Canning

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information. — Ronald Kessler

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man. — Edward Abbey

I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot. — Jon Voight

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story. — Neil Young

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top. — Gary Hamel

I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it. — Jon Tester

A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the Loyalist governor of the province of Massachusetts. — Sarah Vowell

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. — Clara Barton

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. — James Madison

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away. — Penn Jillette

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline. — Jean Anouilh

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home. — Mike Pence

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry. — Ron Wyden

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being. — Adrienne Rich

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution. — William Howard Taft

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. — Roger Wicker

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first best country ever is at home. — Oliver Goldsmith

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. — Michael Badnarik

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country. — Henry David Thoreau